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Galerie Magda Danysz Paris: GAEL DAVRINCHE - 5 May 2012 to 16 June 2012 Current Exhibition |
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GAEL DAVRINCHE / Solo show From 5 May, 2012 to 16 June, 2012 Opening 5 May, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm Graduated from the Beaux Arts of Paris in 2000, Gaël Davrinche is interest foremost with a “uneducated” expression style that is spontaneous, without any tricks, and a borrowed representation style of children. Early on, he seeks to revise and reinterpret the works of grand masters, an expression between irreverence and tribute. Las Meninas by Velasquez, Girl with pearl earring by Vermeer, the artists pushes the boldness in taking the Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci through a series of seven canvases which desecrated Mona Lisa to scrawling point with the accompany words such as “SALE” or worse L.C.K.C.I.R., a nod of the hat that claimed to Marcel Duchamp. The artist explained, “By reworking these famous works, I am able to release myself from the subject, in order to not override the painting, to let itself play and treating it equally as a medium. Question of reincarnating the space and times that then post.” Through the decisive gesture of painting, Gaël Davrinche questions the portrait in its historical and social signification, its reality and imaginary. Oscillating between being and appearance, the artist book in this exhibition of portraits and curious self portraits combines the surprise accessories of the figures, the boxing gloves or reversed potted peony, and offer as well an interpretation of a incongruous portrait. His works takes a strange turn that destabilizes us with the ubiquity of the object, furthermore, become an interrogation of his individual role on his attitude, his relationship with the world, and others. Finally, Gaël Davrinche surprises us with a series of flowers, faded with petals that seem ready to fall into the slightest breath of air. Painted in huge format or drew in style of “flower portraits,” which offered a metaphorical version of life. The artist sees them as renewable symbols, with variation. It is not to paint despair of nature that is mostly dead but to question the becoming of revival. The painting of Gaël Davrinche is powerful. By cutting and scribbling, he gives subject. According to Philippe Piguet, in his mixed universe “the beautiful, the ugly, paint good, paint bad, the stander, the consensus.” It is all “madness in painting” which invited us to an astonishing visual discovery |
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